"Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the â€œright sideâ€ of the war, ever heardâ€”let alone answered?"

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Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2011). “Letters From Home”, p.572, Kensington Publishing Corp.

Kristina McMorris

#Prayer Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I don't believe in God.”
“It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”
“Murder is not about lust and itâ€™s not about violence. Itâ€™s about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, itâ€™s being God.”
“While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.”
“What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.”
“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.”
“I think when youâ€™re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You canâ€™t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.”
“If I can succeed in saving only a single soul I can be sure that my own will be saved.”

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